Eyeglass or



(No Model.)

D. OHARA.

, EYEGLASS OR SPEGTAGLE FRAME.

No. 359,173. Patented Mar. 8, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL OHARA, OFTVALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

EYEGLASS OR SPECTACLE FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,173, dated March 8, 1887.

Application filed November 23, 1886. Serial No. 219,674. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL OHARA, of Waltham, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eyeglass or S pectacle Frames, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention, although more particularly applicable to eyeglass-frames, is in some of its features, as will hereinafter appear, applicable to spectacleframes.

The invention relates to nose-rests of an eyeglass-frame, a detachable covering for the noserests, and an intercli angeable block for insertion between the outer split ends of the lenscontaining rims and means for fastening said block in position.

The invention consists of an eyeglass-frame having its nose-bridge and nose-rests made from a blank, which is split lengthwise into two separate branches and one of said branches divided transversely, all substantially as here inafter described.

Again, the invention consists of a covering for the nose-rests of eyeglass-frames, made of any suitable material and with loops by which to slip it over and suspend and secure it upon the nose-rest; and, further, the in vention consists of the combination, with the outer split or divided end of the lens-containing rim of a frame for eyeglasses and spectacles, of a block to be inserted therein, and meanssuch as a screw, rivet, or other similar fastening device-which is passed through said split ends and the block to fasten the same together.

As the features of this invention are shown in the drawings they are in connection with an eyeglass-frame otherwise made in accord ance with the improved mode of making spectacle and eyeglass frames embraced in my application for Letters Patent of the United States, Serial No. 203,802, and they will be so particularly described herein, although, as will be obvious, they may be applied and adapted to frames produced in other and wellknown ways.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figures 1, 2, and 3 are side views of the blank from which the frame is to be made, and also in its different stages of preparation in accordance with the invention of the afore said application and previous to being made into an eyeglass-frame of the present improved form. Fig. 4 is a face view of the completed eyeglass-frame from the prepared blank of the preceding figures; Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8, views respectively similar to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, but with the blank prepared for being made int-o an eyeglassframe in a modified form from that shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. Fig. 8 is a face view of the completed eyeglass-frame from the prepared blank of Figs. 5,. 6, and 7. Fig. 9 is a view in detail illustratinga series of interchangeable blocks for insertion between the split end of alens-containing rim. Figs. 10, 11, and 12 are views in detail hereinafter referred to.

In the drawings, A,Figs. 1 and 5,represents a blank, which, preferably, is made of wire of suitable length and diameter or wire-gage for the manufacture of an eyeglass-frame of this invent-ion. This blank Ais of any suitable metal-such as silver, steel, or gold-and, preferably and for the reasons hereinafter stated,it is hollow or tubular from end to end; but it may be solid from end to end, or it may be solid or tubular for only its central portion, 13, and for only each end portion, D.

The nose-bridge O is made from the central portion, B, and a lens-containing rim, E, from each end portion, D, which are sawed or split longitudinally into separate branches a b, which are opened out and bent or otherwise suitably formed into the lens-rims E, to contain the lenses. (Not shown.)

G are the nose-rests.

The central portion, B, from which the nosebridge 0 is made, is divided along its length into separate branches at If, and from theouter branch, a the nose-bridge O is made by properly bending or otherwise forming it into shape, and from the inner branch, b transversely divided midway of itslength,the separate nose-rests G are made, one for each lenscontaining rim E, by bending or otherwise forming each of the same downward from the nose-bridge and about and along the rims E, to which at their outer ends they may be at tached or secured in any suitable manneras, for instance, by soldering or otherwise. These nose-rests G maybe made with transverse corrugations, as at d, Fig. 8, along theirlength,

if so desired, and preferably the transverselydivided branch I) of which they are made, as well as the branch (0* of the central portion,B, of the blank,and which makes the nose-bridge, are preferably flattened out in any suitable manner.

H H are pieces for covering the nose-rests. These nose-rest covering-pieces H are each shaped to conform to the nose-rest which they are to cover, and each is provided with crossloopsfat suitable pointsofits length,through which to slip or pass the nose-rest, and thus to suspend and secure the covering-piece on the nose-rest.

The covering-pieces for the nose-rests may be of any suitable n1aterialsuch as leather, india-rubber, &c.and with the nose-rests unattached at the outer ends of the branches 12 of which they are made, to the lens-containing rims, the covering-pieces are free to be removed and replaced again, or others substituted for them.

The eyeglass-frame herein described at the outer end of one of its lens-containing rims is provided with an eye, J, integral with the rim and bent around into shape, Fig. 4, or separate from it and attached by screwing it onto, Fig. 10, or into the projecting end K of the lens-containing rim.

In Fig. 9 a lens-containing rim at its inner end or portion is shown as split so as to be opened out to receive a block, y, (a series of different thicknesses being shown,) which, when inserted, and also the two parts of the split end of the lens-containing rim, are secured together by a headed screw, 2, which is passed through the several thicknesses and screwed into the split portion of the rim opposite to thatone in which itis first entered. A block, inserted as described, holds the split ends of the rims opened from each other, and according to its thickness the inner periphery of the lens-rim is increased in length, thus enabling, with a series of blocks of varying thickness, this length to be increased or decreased, as may be desired, to suit the periphery of the lenses which they are to receive.

The splitting of the blank may be continuous from end to end thereof, or for only those portions from which directly the periphery of the lens-containing rims is formed, and the nose-bridge is directly made, Figs. 2 and 3, or continuous along those portions from which directly the periphery of the lens-containing rims is formed, and that portion from which the nose-bridge is made, Figs. 6 and 7, and if split, as in Figs. 6 and 7, they should be in some manneras, for instance, by a screw, it, passed through them, Fig. 8secured together and against opening out.

Nose-rests and covering-pieces therefor of the construction described are not to be limited to any particular manner of forming the remainder of the eyeglassframe, and the nose bridge and rests of this invention may be made separate from and attached to the lens-containing rims. Again, separating-blocks for the split ends of lens-containing rims may be applied to spectacle or eyeglass frames of other constructions than that particularly de scribed.

By using tubular blanks A for making eye glass frames, as has been particularly described, lenscontaining rims are secured with a concave inner periphery for receiving the edges of the lenses to be inserted in said rims.

The hearing or faces of the coverings for the nose-rests which come in contact with the nose of the wearer may be made plain or smooth-surfaced, or rough-surfaced, corrugated, &c., and the same is true of the rests themselves.

Having thus described. my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. An eyeglassframe having its nose-bridge constructed of one branch of a lengthwise-split blank and its nose-rests of another branch thereof, and which is divided transversely into separate lengths, substantially as described.

2. In eyeglassframes, coverings H for the nose-rests thereof, made to conform to their shape, and with loops f, through which to pass the nose-rests and thus to suspend and secure said coverings thereto, substantially as described.

3. In frames for spectacles and eyeglasses having a lens-containing rim split at the end, a block, 3 inserted between the so split ends and secured in position and to the split ends of the rim, and they to it, substantially as described, for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof Ihave set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DANIEL OI'IARA.

Witnesses:

ALBERT W. BROWN, FRANCES M. BROWN.

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